Expanding Reading Skills

Download or read book Expanding Reading Skills written by Linda Markstein and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic, high-interest passages are paired with reading, writing, comprehension, and discussion activities that integrate new skills and ideas into students' knowledge and experience. -- A thematic organization in each book allows for natural recycling and spiralling of concepts, vocabulary, and syntactic structures, and develops a comprehensive range of reading skills that promote critical thinking and writing skills. -- Pre-reading activities activate background knowledge and set the stage for successful integration of new ideas and concepts. -- Three interesting reading selections per unit, drawn from a variety of genres, promote the acquisition of a diverse and broad-based set of reading skills. High-interest topics include Fashion and Style, Disaster Strikes, Across Many Cultures, Technology, How to Improve Your Memory, and an extra expansion section on Developing Research and Writing Skills.